On Monday, Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati said the World Food Programme (WFP) has agreed to allocate $5.4 billion to aid Lebanon over the next three years.
After receiving Abdallah AlWardat, Director of the WFP in Lebanon, Mikati mentioned that the Executive Board of the Program in Rome, in its meeting last Thursday and Friday, agreed to allocate $5.4 billion for Lebanon for the next three years, provided that the amount is divided equally between the Lebanese and the Syrians at a ratio of 50 percent each.
According to Mikati, the WFP was disbursing 70 percent of aid to the Syrians and 30 percent to the Lebanese, with a total of approximately $700 million annually.
On his part, AlWardat stated that this project will continue to provide emergency aid and in-kind and cash assistance to the beneficiaries of this program, and the number of beneficiaries will be increased.
"The program will continue to provide cash assistance to a number of refugees, and today we are talking about one million Syrian refugees and one million Lebanese who will benefit from this project,” he added.
AlWardat also indicated that the program will also continue to provide assistance to school students who benefit from the school feeding program, and their current number is about 73,000 students. He added that the new project aims to reach about 150,000 students.
According to the director of the WFP in Lebanon, the project provides support to farmers in order to enhance food security in Lebanon, which depends on importing between 80 and 90 percent of wheat.
The project is set to help increase the agricultural area in Lebanon and focus on wheat cultivation to increase local production of this staple.
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